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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Short \Short\, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. Shirt.]
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Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it.
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Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
--Chaucer.To short absense I could yield.
--Milton. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
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Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
We shall be short in our provision.
--Shak. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
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Not distant in time; near at hand.
Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short.
--Spenser.He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
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Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present.
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Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
--Landor. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
(Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
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(Metal) Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account of the presence of phosphorus.
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(Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer.
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(Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three.
--R. A. Proctor.To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See under Come, Cut, etc.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: short). n. (context colloquial English) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
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Usage examples of "shorter".
Tyrone accommodated her shorter height by bending his knees, and for a moment their eyes melded in warm communications.
Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
Terry Bisson pubiished three novels, including Fire on the Mountain and Talking Man, before he tried his hand at shorter forms around the end of the 1980s.
The man was young, not more than twenty local years, and, although no taller than Longway, was of slight build, and stood with a stoop which made him seem shorter than he was.
The connection of the laterals with the mains, the laying of the larger sizes of tiles so as to form a close joint, the wedging of these larger tiles firmly into their places, and the trimming which is necessary in going around sharp curves, and in putting in the shorter pieces which are needed to fill out the exact length of the drain, demand more skill and judgment than are often found in the common ditcher.
In the kay-wide circular space that appeared to be Merthe, there were none of the monolithic forest giants, but only a scattering of shorter trees, most set right against the low houses.
He wore not one but two deadly misericords on the right side of his sword belt, with another, shorter dagger at his waist.
Then I realized that was no good -- like Uncle Martin in his manic-poet period trying to outwrite Shakespeare -- so I decided that my message would just be shorter.
The next patroller was squat, even shorter than Cerryl, but twice as broad, and his hair was jet-black, his eyes equally black.
The closer the pinging object gets to own ship, the shorter the interval between pings.
He bent carefully to his equipment sling, replaced the used piton, and took up a shorter one.
The shorter piton went to its eye in five hammer strokes and he could do nothing to dislodge it.
They were considerably shorter than the plainsman, whose height seemed to intimidate them.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Pontifex Maximus had not prodded the College of Pontifices he headed to do their duty and keep the shorter calendar year in time with the seasons.
In this tree-toad there is a long black lateral line running posteriorly from the tympanum and above it a shorter line just as in the drawings.